RICHMOND CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

TIDINGS - Term 3 Week 9 . 2022

Visions of God

This term the staff have been sharing “Visions of God” in our morning devotions.  With Jonno away, these are two small excerpts of recent devotions.  May you experience the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit these holidays.

The bible is full of visions of God, along with His beautiful creation and all the people that He brings across our path. When we know God and read His Word His vision is revealed, with the help of the Holy Spirit we can begin to see how God sees. How He sees others, how He sees us and how He sees our circumstances. It says in 1 Samuel 16 that the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.

When we seek God and seek to look through his eyes we begin to see with an eternal perspective. God desires all His children to believe in Him, know Him, love Him and spend eternity with Him! Because He loves us! John 3:17 says “For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him”. It’s the gospel message that enables us to live with an eternal perspective.

Having an eternal perspective helps me to keep my focus on what’s most important in life, it gives me peace and hope in a world that seems to move further and further away from the things of God and what His word says.’

 

‘God‘s heart's desire is that we know His love. We experience it. We feel it.  We know and feel it in our hearts, not just our heads. Our 

Heavenly Daddy wants us to be confident in His love, His ways, His leading.

God made us. He loves us. He has done everything to win our hearts to His. He wants us to be his friend and be in a relationship with him. Relationships grow when we hang out, communicate and learn about each other, and since God is our Creator, we only learn about our true identity and worth from Him.

The Bible tells us that Jesus often withdrew to a quiet place to pray. And I am not sure what they talked about but I have a feeling that Jesus often listened to His father and was reminded how much He was loved, that He was His precious Son in whom He takes great delight. And it was out of the overflow that Jesus was able to see others as His father did and love them with his Father’s heart.

My heart's desire is to love, to love God and love others but how can I love with His heart unless I’ve experienced it first and often myself? 

If we want to share the love of God with others, we need to first receive it ourselves. Let it drop from our heads to our hearts so that hopefully we too can be a glimpse of God to these precious little ones in our care and to those around us.’

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

YEAR 12 GRADUATION AND STAGE 6 AWARD CEREMONY

Thursday 13 October at 9am 

All Welcome

FIRST DAY OF TERM 4 2022

Tuesday 11 October

FAMILY CINEMA UNDER THE STARS

We enjoyed an amazing night of community fun under the stars on Friday night at our Family Cinema Under the Stars! Thanks to all who attended including our wonderful board, staff and volunteers, the food trucks, our generous sponsors and our gracious God for a perfect evening.

Pancake Breakfast

The weather may have been damp, but there was much warmth from the kitchen and joy as we gathered for our annual pancake breakfast this morning! Thanks to all who worked so hard and those who came and were filled with sweet goodness. May the holidays be a time of refreshing - three terms down, one to go!

Pancake Breakfast and Footy Colours Day

RCC Prayer Group

Parents and friends of RCC are invited to gather for prayer each Monday at 2pm in the Pre-Kindy room.  This is an opportunity to intercede for our children, teachers, staff, and wider school community together as followers of Jesus.  All welcome!

"Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need."  Hebrews 4:16

Relate@RCC

What is Relate@RCC?  A great opportunity to meet other parents in a relaxed informal atmosphere.  We supply the coffee, you supply the chat!

Watch this space for the dates of Relate in Term 4!

LEARNING THE RCC WAY

Congratulations Tristan

Tristan Causley-James did very well at the CSSA Athletics , coming 1st in Shot Put and 3rd in Long Jump thereby making the State CSSA Athletics Team to compete at the CIS State Athletics Carnival on Tuesday 20th September.  Tristan is the State CSSA Champion in ShotPut for his age!

CSSA North Coast Netball Gala Day

The CSSA North Coast Netball Gala Day was held in Ballina on Friday 16th September. Our netball teams played brilliantly achieving some of our best results in years. Our Primary RCC A came 1st and won the trophy with RCC B placing 4th in the primary division. The 15yrs & Under girls came 3rd and our Open girls came 2nd. Congratulations also to Henry Strahan who won MVP for the primary division and thank you to Sonny Martin for his service in the Canteen. Such fabulous results and congratulations to all our netballers. Such a great day of netball and God was so faithful as the weather cleared to a beautiful sunny day!

Stage 5 PASS

Once again, Stage 5 PASS Elective have been hitting the great outdoors. Week 8 - we visited Ballina's very own Disc Golf Course - just a short stroll from the school. Students participated in a 3-person Ambrose event, with 2 groups finishing equal first on 2 over par. They then played an individual round with their friends. Week 9 - we went on a Bushwalk to Killen Falls, Tintenbar. We saw Emigrant Creek Dam, which is one of Ballina's water catchments. We then walked downstream to the viewing platform, and finally the base of the falls, where students explored in behind the falls. Students were encouraged to engage all of their senses on the walk.

CANTEEN

CANTEEN MENU

PLEASE NOTE MENU ITEMS ARE NOT AVAILABLE IN HALF SERVES (EXCLUDING CHIPS)

Racecourse Café provides a lunch canteen Monday to Friday.

Bring your orders into the School Office before school or by 10.30am.

Please write the name and order on a bag or envelope and enclose the exact money. 

Note: No Change will be given as orders go straight to the Racecourse Café. 

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